Conclusion

Abstract

The most striking of truths in studying any part of the history of Nazi Germany is the picture of confusion provided by its own documentation. In relation to the United States and the Germans living in the United States, the documentation further attests to an almost blind ignorance in the formulation of a policy in relation to the reality of the situation. It is almost as if; in their assessment of the American scene, the Nazis choose deliberately to ignore the advice — if they were aware of it to begin with — of one of their own great German historians, Leopold von Ranke, who had urged the reconstruction of history “as it actually was.”